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"You make a lot of good points in your post. I think the big problem is there is a inherent sense of (false) security with all the techno baubles people have today. Cell phones are very unreliable in the outback. Even if there IS service, \"who you gonna call?\"  GPS? I have seen so many people blindly following their GPS and going completely in the wrong direction! Or like the Fed Ex dual trailer drivers who tried to follow the \"Old Stage Road\" along I-17 when the freeway was closed during an accident.   \n\"It's on my map!\" the driver said as he tried to turn around on a road barely wide enough for a Jeep or standard sized pickup. That \"road\" was a goat trail; fodder for people like us but hardly suitable for an eighteen wheeler. Yet because it showed up on a driver's GPS, he blindly followed it !!!!   \nThe complexity of today's vehicles don't make problematic situations any friendlier. Beyond changing a tire or belt (and even those can be pretty tough), most vehicle repairs are out of the realm of most people.    \nThat aside, there is the issue of common sense. It seems to be an unused extra add-on option for most people. Bad drivers on pavement are bad drivers X10000 off road. Charging into a rock face to climb over it, or getting a running start to pull someone out of a mud hole are some of the many recipes for disaster.   \nGoing with a group is nice but not always an option. In the end a good set of hiking boots is probably the most important item to carry off road. "
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